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The central processing unit (CPU) is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer.

I run a production web server with 24 cores in which the work is both CPU and I/O intensive, but mostly CPU. My scripts delay execution when total CPU load is ~85% or higher in order to keep the load ...

we have an issue with our HP XL230a Gen9 blades where some of the applications are only seeing half of the CPU. On the task manager we see all 56 cores but application are only seeing half of them. We ...

I've got some trouble with Percona Server 5.5: suddenly abnormous MySQL CPU usage caused the system
to become unresponsive as it was eating up all CPU with a large number of threads.
It's a 24 core ...

I currently have a HyperV Server 2012 R2 running on a motherboard that supports two processors, but currently has only one. It has 64GB of memory. I'd like to now add a second processor, moving half ...

I have a 16 CPU core server that's experiencing consistent load averages of 40-70. After camping on a top command for a number of hours, I've isolated the CPU spikes to a single user.
After pressing ...

I've recently been facing hugely increased server response time for some of my web pages (response time in the range of 10-20 seconds).
For example, for the page http://www.edmhunters.com/afrojack/ - ...

I have an R410 that we opened up to upgrade from 2 x E5520 to 2 x X5690.
However after the upgrade network didnt work and we could not even get a monitor output. We tried swapping CPU positions and ...

I am using PowerVM hypervisor with AIX operating system, and having troubles understanding the difference between virtual processors vs processing units.
Here is an example:
I have got a server with ...

I am using MariaDB galera cluster with two nodes + one node for arbiter. My system has 24 core CPU. I am getting stuck with CPU bound. Sometimes, my system consume CPU time to 1000% and CPU load get ...

I am going to build an small 4 disks NAS server with FreeNAS/ZFS. I've read that due to ZFS performance 8GB is the recommended amount of RAM for the solution, but I wonder about the CPU. Currently I ...

I've inherited a website that uses a lot of session state. We've recently experienced continuous high CPU ~95-100% for prolonged period of times.
When debugging using DebugDiag, it shows that there ...

I have a dual Opteron server running Linux with libvirt to host several VMs. The VMs work fine and the server processes OK, but I notice one CPU always runs about 69C (throttles at 70C) and the other ...

I have a couple of HP BL460Cs that are being tested to determine which processor we want to go with when we start upgrading our equipment, and there's a problem with this environment variable on one ...

I've got following exceptions after my server freezes and reboot for 2 times
I cannot tell the relevant with docker, but it happends every time I started some containers and I cannot find any useful ...

I'm considering to build a server using the Supermicro X10SLL-F board with a Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU. However, according to my research, this CPU requires a BIOS update (unfortunately Supermicro does not ...

Over the past couple of days my website's performance has been very sluggish, with queries taking a lot of time to execute. My CPU usage hit around 100% 4 times this week. Here is the output of top at ...

I am using PostgreSQL 9.3 server on my production server. Everything had been working fine for the past couple of months. But since the past week or so, PostgreSQL seems to have becomes very slow with ...

Over the past 10 days, I'm suddenly experiencing increased CPU usage on my website with CPU usage reaching 100% three times. During that time I'm unable to SSH to my website so I haven't been able to ...

Over the past 10 days, I'm suddenly experiencing increased CPU usage on my website with CPU usage reaching 100% three times. During that time I'm unable to SSH to my website so I haven't been able to ...

I have a Cisco UCS C240 M3S server with dual CPU failure under warranty. I am trying to find both CPU serial numbers to complete the RMA request, however cannot find any serial numbers. I have tried ...

So i'm running a lab on a Dell PE R410 2 X 4C 2.26Ghz, this evening I saw that vCenter is showing that the processor is @ 2.27Ghz. It's not that big of a deal but was curious as to why there is that ...

we are using Avira Webgate as Virusscanner for squid. We have two Servers running the Avira Webgate and see in both servers the same behaviour:
The CPU is nearly always at 100% CPU whicht is fine on ...

In our environment, we have two tomcat servers on a windows environment which are load balanced. Server 1 has normal CPU utilization whereas Server 2 has almost/more than double the CPU utilization of ...